Researchers are returning to the Alabama coast near Mobile to assess the sunken remains of the last slave ship
— Researchers are returning to the Alabama coast near Mobile to assess the sunken remains of the The Alabama Historical Commission says a team will begin a 10-day evaluation of the remnants of the Clotilda on Monday. Experts have described the wreck as the most complete slave ship ever discovered.
The company plans to moor a 100-foot-long barge at the site with equipment to support divers and store artifacts that are removed from the water for analysis and documentation. Some have advocated for removing the wreckage from the water and placing it on display in a new museum that's being discussed, and officials have said the work will help determine whether such a project is possible.
called Africatown USA just north of Mobile after the Civil War, and many of their descendants still live there.as being that of the Clotilda in 2019, and officials have been assessing the site and deciding what to do with it ever since. While small parts of the two-masted wooden schooner have been brought to the surface, researchers have found that most of the ship — including the pen that was used to imprison the captives — remains intact on the river bottom.
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